Al Golden

Former Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier has transferred to Miami. Forcier signed an aid agreement on Wednesday, making the transfer official. Under NCAA rules, he will not be eligible to play for the Hurricanes until 2012. Forcier completed 219 of 365 passes for 2,647 yards, with 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 20 games for the Wolverines. He announced his intentions to transfer last month on Twitter, and was academically ineligible for Michigan's trip to the Gator Bowl.

Former Notre Dame player Nate Schiccatano will play his final season of college football at Temple, his father, Sam Schiccatano, confirmed Wednesday. Schiccatano is taking advantage of an NCAA rule passed in April. That rule allows student-athletes who have earned their undergraduate degree and still have athletic eligibility remaining to transfer to another Div. 1-A school for graduate school and be able to play immediately. Under the previous rule, players who transferred from one Div. 1-A school to another had to sit out a season.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Aztecs can coach Craft San Diego State football coach Tom Craft was fired Monday after four seasons in which his Aztecs failed to post a winning record. The school called an afternoon news conference to announce the firing. A school official confirmed Craft's dismissal to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because it hadn't been officially announced. Craft, who had one year left on his contract, was 19-29 in four seasons. His best finish was 6-6 in 2003.

CHICAGO - Overcoming inexperience helped carry Miami to a 4-1 start to the season, but in the first quarter of Saturday's game the Hurricanes looked as young as their roster reads. What started as physical errors in the form of dropped passes turned into mental errors causing costly penalties all in the span of one series each on offense and defense. On the first play from scrimmage, Miami quarterback Stephen Morris found Phillip Dorsett streaking open down the middle of the field with no defender between Dorsett and the end zone, but the sophomore wide receiver dropped the potential touchdown reception.

How USC continues to recruit so successfully is easy to explain. It's one of the major schools in the country, which is kind of similar to Notre Dame's situation, and the school has got two of the premier recruiters in the country in Lane Kiffin and Ed Orgeron. No matter where they are, they succeed. Orgeron had great talent at Mississippi. Kiffin has always been a great recruiter -- at USC as an assistant, as the head coach at Tennessee for a year and now at SC as the head coach.

When Miami hit the road to play at Kansas State in the second game of the season and returned home after a 52-13 drubbing, another season of underachievement seemed ahead for the Hurricanes. Since then Miami has ripped off three-straight wins, the last two thrilling victories over ACC foes, and all of a sudden the Hurricanes sit at 4-1 on the season and 3-0 in conference play. A confident team has emerged out of the shaky start. "I think it's fair to say that they're more confident now than when we came back from Manhattan," Miami head coach Al Golden said on a Sunday teleconference.

I rank Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops among the top five or six recruiters in the country. How do you build a consistent winner in college? Through recruiting. Oklahoma has great organization in recruiting and the guys over the last 10 years who have done the best have been Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Stoops and Mack Brown. They've all been consistent, and they don't take a year off. The young guys coming up would be Al Golden and Lane Kiffin, neither of whom takes a year off. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the aforementioned guys keep winning - it's that they consistently recruit well, and Oklahoma is a good example.

How USC continues to recruit so successfully is easy to explain. It's one of the major schools in the country, which is kind of similar to Notre Dame's situation, and the school has got two of the premier recruiters in the country in Lane Kiffin and Ed Orgeron. No matter where they are, they succeed. Orgeron had great talent at Mississippi. Kiffin has always been a great recruiter -- at USC as an assistant, as the head coach at Tennessee for a year and now at SC as the head coach.

I rank Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops among the top five or six recruiters in the country. How do you build a consistent winner in college? Through recruiting. Oklahoma has great organization in recruiting and the guys over the last 10 years who have done the best have been Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Stoops and Mack Brown. They've all been consistent, and they don't take a year off. The young guys coming up would be Al Golden and Lane Kiffin, neither of whom takes a year off. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the aforementioned guys keep winning - it's that they consistently recruit well, and Oklahoma is a good example.

I rank Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops among the top five or six recruiters in the country. How do you build a consistent winner in college? Through recruiting. Oklahoma has great organization in recruiting and the guys over the last 10 years who have done the best have been Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Stoops and Mack Brown. They've all been consistent, and they don't take a year off. The young guys coming up would be Al Golden and Lane Kiffin, neither of whom takes a year off. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the aforementioned guys keep winning - it's that they consistently recruit well, and Oklahoma is a good example.

CHICAGO - Overcoming inexperience helped carry Miami to a 4-1 start to the season, but in the first quarter of Saturday's game the Hurricanes looked as young as their roster reads. What started as physical errors in the form of dropped passes turned into mental errors causing costly penalties all in the span of one series each on offense and defense. On the first play from scrimmage, Miami quarterback Stephen Morris found Phillip Dorsett streaking open down the middle of the field with no defender between Dorsett and the end zone, but the sophomore wide receiver dropped the potential touchdown reception.

When Miami hit the road to play at Kansas State in the second game of the season and returned home after a 52-13 drubbing, another season of underachievement seemed ahead for the Hurricanes. Since then Miami has ripped off three-straight wins, the last two thrilling victories over ACC foes, and all of a sudden the Hurricanes sit at 4-1 on the season and 3-0 in conference play. A confident team has emerged out of the shaky start. "I think it's fair to say that they're more confident now than when we came back from Manhattan," Miami head coach Al Golden said on a Sunday teleconference.

Former Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier has transferred to Miami. Forcier signed an aid agreement on Wednesday, making the transfer official. Under NCAA rules, he will not be eligible to play for the Hurricanes until 2012. Forcier completed 219 of 365 passes for 2,647 yards, with 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 20 games for the Wolverines. He announced his intentions to transfer last month on Twitter, and was academically ineligible for Michigan's trip to the Gator Bowl.

Former Notre Dame player Nate Schiccatano will play his final season of college football at Temple, his father, Sam Schiccatano, confirmed Wednesday. Schiccatano is taking advantage of an NCAA rule passed in April. That rule allows student-athletes who have earned their undergraduate degree and still have athletic eligibility remaining to transfer to another Div. 1-A school for graduate school and be able to play immediately. Under the previous rule, players who transferred from one Div. 1-A school to another had to sit out a season.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Aztecs can coach Craft San Diego State football coach Tom Craft was fired Monday after four seasons in which his Aztecs failed to post a winning record. The school called an afternoon news conference to announce the firing. A school official confirmed Craft's dismissal to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because it hadn't been officially announced. Craft, who had one year left on his contract, was 19-29 in four seasons. His best finish was 6-6 in 2003.